Episode 21

21. Can You Know What is True?

Elusive Certainty & Determining Truth

Can we be certain about anything or is truth subjective? Ontology, epistemology, and the modes and tools of discerning truth(logos, ethos, pathos, epistemological assumptions, superstition, inductive and deductive reasoning). 

How ought limited, finite, myopic human beings use their incomplete knowledge to approach a thing like truth?

Overview

  • Ontology and epistemology — are we capable of knowing truth? Can we be certain about anything? 
  • How we pursue truth — including modes of reasoning/persuasion, epistemological assumptions, and superstition.
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Tyler Kleeberger

Becoming Human

It’s an infinite conversation, really. What does it mean to be alive? How should we live? What is the best, healthiest way to exist and do all of the things that make up life?

There’s a lot to explore.

And even more questions to ask.

But that’s what we are here to do.

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